Stream Control Transmission Protocol

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is presented as a robust option compared to traditional transport layer protocols like TCP and UDP. It offers various advanced features to meet modern communication needs. This paper provides an overview of SCTP, highlighting its unique attributes and benefits in ensuring reliable, message-oriented communication between hosts. SCTP ensures data integrity through acknowledgment mechanisms and retransmission strategies, even during network disruptions. Its messageoriented nature preserves data unit boundaries, facilitating efficient communication between applications. One notable feature of SCTP is its support for multi-streaming, allowing multiple streams of data to travel independently through a single connection. This enables applications to manage different types of data traffic within the same connection, optimizing resource usage. Additionally, SCTP's multi-homing capability provides redundancy and fault tolerance by supporting multiple network interfaces. Its path management capabilities dynamically monitor network conditions, enhancing fault tolerance, load balancing, and overall performance in diverse network environments. Moreover, SCTP offers flexible ordered and unordered data delivery options, meeting various application requirements. OBJECTIVE: This paper helps readers to understand the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). We will include its basic principles and how it actually works. By dissecting SCTP's structure, features, and what it can do, we hope to make it easier for people to grasp how SCTP functions and why it's better than traditional transport layer protocols. We'll look at things like how reliable it is, its focus on handling messages, its ability to handle multiple streams and connections (multi-streaming and multi-homing), and its capability to manage paths adaptively. Ultimately, our goal is to give readers the knowledge they need to see how SCTP improves communication reliability and efficiency in modern networking setups.